Chhipa Shaukat Ali, Hashmi Farzeen K, Ali Shehreen, Kamal Mustafa, Ahmad Khabir
Dr. Shaukat Ali Chhipa, FCPS. Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Dr. Farzeen K. Hashmi, MBBS. Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Pak J Med Sci. 2017 Mar-Apr;33(2):430-432. doi: 10.12669/pjms.332.11710.
To describe the frequency of color vision deficiency among Pakistani adults presenting for pre-employment health screening in a tertiary care hospital.
The cross-sectional study was carried out at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and the data was collected for color vision deficiency, age, gender, and job applied for from pre-employment examination during 2013-2014. IBM SPSS 20 was used for statistical analysis.
Three thousand four hundred and thirty seven persons underwent pre-employment screening during 2013 and 2014; 1837 (53.44%) were males and 1600 (46.65%) females. The mean age was 29.01 (±6.53) years. A total of 0.9% (32/3437) persons had color vision deficiency with male being 1.4% and female 0.4%.
Color vision deficiency was observed in 0.9% of candidates screened for pre-employment health check up in a tertiary care hospital. The color vision deficiency was predominantly present in male individuals.
描述在一家三级护理医院接受就业前健康筛查的巴基斯坦成年人中色盲的发生率。
在卡拉奇的阿迦汗大学医院开展了这项横断面研究,收集了2013 - 2014年就业前检查中有关色盲、年龄、性别及申请职位的数据。使用IBM SPSS 20进行统计分析。
2013年和2014年共有3437人接受就业前筛查;其中男性1837人(53.44%),女性1600人(46.65%)。平均年龄为29.01(±6.53)岁。共有0.9%(32/3437)的人患有色盲,男性为1.4%,女性为0.4%。
在一家三级护理医院接受就业前健康检查的筛查对象中,0.9%的人患有色盲。色盲主要出现在男性个体中。